Gamaliel

Role: Pharisee and doctor of the law · First appears: Acts 5

Gamaliel, a Pharisee and doctor of the law, persuaded the council in Acts 5 to release the apostles after they had been beaten and warned not to speak in the name of Jesus, an action involving Peter. He cited Theudas, who had boasted of being somebody before being slain, and Judas of Galilee, who drew away many people before perishing.

By Acts 22, Gamaliel was remembered as the mentor who brought up Paul in Jerusalem and taught him according to the law of the fathers: “yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers”

Relationship record

Life events

• Gamaliel persuaded the council to release the apostles after beating and warning them.(Acts 5)
  • With: Peter
  • “And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.”

Acts 5

• with Theudas (Gamaliel cited Theudas in his speech.) “For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain;”
• with Judas of Galilee (Gamaliel cited Judas of Galilee in his speech.) “After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished;”

Acts 22

• pupil: Paul (Gamaliel taught Paul.) “yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers”

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Extracted from the original text of The New Testament. Made with Rho MD.